Identifier: bibliothecaspenc05spen (find matches)
Title: Bibliotheca Spenceriana; or, A descriptive catalogue of the ... library of George John, earl Spencer
Year: 1814 (1810s)
Authors: Spencer, George John Spencer, Earl, 1758-1834 Dibdin, Thomas Frognall, 1776-1847 John Rylands Library
Subjects: Althorp (Northampton, Northamptonshire) Incunabula Rare books Printing
Publisher: London
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Internet Archive

View Book Page: Book Viewer
About This Book: Catalog Entry
View All Images: All Images From Book
Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book.

Text Appearing Before Image:
laws and religion, but gods will must be done, and he knoMs whats bestfor us. Pray for mee, and be as much my fiend as He indeauour to deserue.I wish w all my soule youd shew mee your kindness in directing mee.No. 17. The following are her sentiments upon the decapitation of her uncle, theunfortunate Lord Russell. It is dated 22 July, 1683: I have so much expe-rience of your good nature and compassion to your friends to fear your thinkingme guilty of any neglect or want of kindnes or respect to my frends at detford,becaus I haue not been to uisit your daughter as I ought to have done in herlying in, and as I should certainly for more reasons than one have seen detfordlong before this time, had I not bin ouerwhelmed w y^ misfortunes of a famylywho haue taken up all my thoughts this 3 weeks; and indeed my mothers party she bears in it is so grieuous that I was obliged to go down to althorpc toher, she not being well. No. 60. Yet Lady Sunderland has been accused ofdisplaying no sympathy!
Text Appearing After Image:
Ji-K In i\j ia, IFrom./Ell ©jd^im/JI fisimtmg Iby SirP.LeJl-s^.mtia® jai..i^rT.^iV ^•wh&a.rt ..rf. ,-77 A :.-Af./,-,/•/■/f _.r^- /...■., f/i^,/r. Jfii?_, ya>/. —1702.) ACCOUNT OF ALTHORP. li thirteen years; dying in 1715, but not before she had seen hersecond son, Charles, united in marriage; first, with the noblefamily of Cavendish, Duke of Newcastle ;* and, secondly, withthe not less illustrious house of Marlborough—from whichsecond marriage the dukedom is now derived. She also saw himLord Lieutenant of Ireland, and Lord Privy Seal: just beforeher decease. It only remains to request the readers attention tothe Portrait by Sir P. Lelyj- of the lady whose characterhas so long engaged his attention. It is taken from the original,in the Gallery at Althorp; although Granger notices anotherportrait of her, at Windsor, which has been mistaken for that ofher mother-in-law. Charles, third Earl of Sunderland, was distinguished fromhis youth for his love of learning. On th

Note About Images